C1 Daily Practice 24

Today's phrasal verb means: "to prevent someone from getting something they have a right to"

The workers are worried that their employer is going to do them ........ of the money they are owed.

• back

• over

• in

• out

Word Formation: Today's word: "CHILD"

Don't be so ........! Act your age and stop throwing things around.

Word Formation: Today's word: "CHILD"

The medicine bottle has a ........ top, so it should be safe.

Open/Cloze - Part 2

It has been described as the solution to a problem nobody realised existed. But that hasn’t stopped the self-attaching Post-it note – that little square piece of paper that sticks in .......... a clever way that it can be removed,

COLLOCATION:

Today's phrase: "a ........ course"

I'm taking an intensive 2 day ........ course in computing. I want to learn the basics quickly before I start my new job.

• splash

• crash

• flash

• smash

UOE Part 4:

Complete the sentence so that it has a similar meaning. Do not change the word given. You must use between three and six words, including the word given.

We hired a private nurse to look after my mother when she broke her leg.

CARE

We hired a private nurse ___________my mother when she broke her leg.

Reading Part 5:

Open a street map of any city and you see a diagram of all the possible routes one could take in traversing or

exploring it. Superimpose on the street map the actual traffic flows that are observed and you see quite a different city: one of flows. The flows show how people actually travel in the city, as distinct from how they could. This helps in thinking about the internet and digital technology generally. In itself, the technology has vast possibilities, as several recent books emphasise, but what we actually wind up doing with it is, at any point in time, largely unknown.

Q: The reviewer starts with the metaphor of a city map in order to illustrate

• the difficulty in understanding the complexity of the internet.

• the degree to which the internet changes as time passes.

• the difference between potential and real internet use.

• the importance of the internet in people’s lives today.